Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: esper41@yahoo.co.uk (esper41) Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion Subject: Re: A Sudden Shock on Sunday Morning Date: 20 Aug 2002 19:32:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <3d4d0e25_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.106.215.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029897158 25421 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2002 02:32:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2002 02:32:38 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:2051 "Disaster" wrote in message news:... > "esper41" wrote: > > "Disaster" wrote: > > > So what? That's totally beside the point and for these matters > > > unimportant. Obviously we are not talking about Adults, we are talking > > > about kids. Don't change the subject. > > > > Your post implied that you belive adults to be superior to children, > > and I was merely arguing that that is not always the case - by the > > same token, if you look hard enough you will find an 8-year-old > > smarter than you and me put together. > > Superior is not the right term. We are all equal as humans go. However an > adult will always be smarter then a child, more experienced and so forth. > Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure this rule has it's exception. For example > someone who has abused alcohol for years and as a result has suffer > several strokes will most likely have a severally reduce mental capacity. > > But don't sit there an suggest that I have implied something I have not! > Your use of the term superior is an ugly attempt to twist my words into > something that looks like unjustified bias. > > No 8 year old has the life experience of myself, let alone you and me put > together. There is no point in having huge intelligence if you don't know > how or why to use it. I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your post, and I certainly didn't mean to offend you as much as I seem to have done - perhaps we should just agree to disagree on this, I don't want to makean enemy of you.